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Its only buses, it doesn't need to be accurate - TfL allegedly.

'hand-picked' Christmas tree, yes of course it was.

Still Anon | 18.11.21 - 7:50 a.m. | #

They key bus routes of central London map is also very frustrating, leaving off key routes such as 1, 19, 29, 168, 176 etc. If a map doesn't show the options, then why bother messing the public around?

NickW | 18.11.21 - 8:25 a.m. | #

Tree-mendous article.

Ed | 18.11.21 - 8:46 a.m. | #

I would go along Oxford Street, not up or down it. (But Regent Street does have up and down).

As regards the article, maybe it's time the authors/sponsors/managers of this drivel checked the facts or employed a competent fact-checker or added a manned enquiry/comment phone number or abandoned the exercise and saved Tfl the cost.

Ian | 18.11.21 - 9:15 a.m. | #

Is it really too much to ask that the people who write these things actually test them out? An hour or two would have saved a lot of mistakes.

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 18.11.21 - 9:17 a.m. | #

I find that OpenStreetMap is quite good for showing bus routes when you show the "Transport Map" layer. This here should show bus routes in Central London.

On a phone, Guru Maps is pretty good - change the Map Source to OpenBusMap (you need to be online for this).

Steve Rochford | 18.11.21 - 10:07 a.m. | #

I suspect this sorry exercise was carried out back-to-front: some TfL apparatchik e-mailed a lot of “attractions” and some prominent businesses, asked them about transport access (and maybe tapped them for a few thousands for a name-check and inclusion?) and then slung it all together without bothering to see if any of it worked. I hear the ghost of Christmas Past — Frank Pick — lamenting in the background.

Labourer | 18.11.21 - 10:34 a.m. | #

I suspect (completely without evidence, and after the most minimal of research) that this may be the product of VCCP, TfL's contracted "through-the-line" agency. Consequently, it may be the result of eager young media beavers blundering about at the bottom of the social slash marketing etc agency pyramid. One must take pity on them. A gay young thing set loose in London and seeking immersion in the frothy, emoji-splattered social media whirl is not - necessarily - the traditional type to embrace the intricacies of bus route minutiae. There is probably a humorous Venn diagram somewhere.

jpmac | 18.11.21 - 10:36 a.m. | #

jpmac — yes, and they’d be a great deal more familiar with the Uber app than anything involving an Oyster.

Labourer | 18.11.21 - 10:42 a.m. | #

Not THAT long ago, there would have been special open top buses run on a couple of the regular routes going down Oxford Street, especially to see the Christmas lights

Mikey C | 18.11.21 - 10:50 a.m. | #

I had probably stayed for too long on the Bayswater Road (that is, 3 hours max, over a few days in 2015 and 2018) that I find the inclusion of the 94 and 390 not surprising at all.

Patrickov | 18.11.21 - 11:18 a.m. | #

I love these kind of posts, though they do make me despair somewhat.

Cornish Cockney | 18.11.21 - 11:54 a.m. | #

They tweeted it again at 10am this morning.

They also made 8 changes to the text 😉

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.21 - 2:16 p.m. | #

By the looks of those changes, seems someone at TfL is reading this blog.

Maxime | 18.11.21 - 2:42 p.m. | #

TfL are cunning in getting some poor sub to write this drivel and then waiting to see what DG makes of it. Using this work they can then put out the correct version safe in the knowledge that it is at last fit for public consumption.

Tones | 18.11.21 - 5:44 p.m. | #

Is your content copyright?

RogerB | 18.11.21 - 5:51 p.m. | #

Also, the full text for route 139 suggests that two different Father Christmases exist, one at Selfridges and one at Hamley's...

🎅 "...from a feel-good Christmas market to magical moments with Santa himself!"

🎅 "...and if you’re lucky, you might even meet Santa himself!

...so that's not a ride you want to take your small children on.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.21 - 6:10 p.m. | #

A new strapline for the blog?

Offering free proofreading services to urban Bolx curators since 2002

TomH | 18.11.21 - 7:53 p.m. | #

Secret London have also published their This Is The Most Christmassy Bus Route In London today, or rather revamped a previous year's attempt so got the price of a bus fare wrong.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 18.11.21 - 9:35 p.m. | #

You'd be better off picking a suburban double decker route to see the various households xmas lights- some of them are quite elaborate.

Emma | 19.11.21 - 10:56 p.m. | #











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